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Europe's largest low cost airline, Ryanair, will enter the Bosnian market this year by introducing flights to Banja Luka. It comes following protracted talks with the government of the Entity of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The carrier will introduce two weekly services from Charleroi Airport in Belgium, each Monday and Friday, starting October 29, as well as from Memmingen in Germany from October 30, each Tuesday and Saturday. The Prime Minister of the entity, Željka Cvijanović, has said that "several additional destinations will also be launched" by the airline in the coming period. Tickets for the new routes are already available for purchase through the carrier's website.
Commenting on the new route, Ryanair’s Sales and Marketing Executive for Belgium, Helene Begasse, said, “We are pleased to announce a new Brussels Charleroi to Banja Luka route commencing this November. This new route marks Ryanair's entry into Bosnia and Herzegovina, and wi…

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Slovenia anticipates China flights in 2018

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Slovenia expects to establish flights with China next year after an airline expressed interest to launch services between Xi'an and Ljubljana. The Slovenian Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek, said, "We are especially interested in improving land, sea and air connectivity with China. We expect that direct flights between China's north-western city of Xi'an and our capital city Ljubljana will be established soon". He added, "Connectivity with China will enhance bilateral tourism and people-to-people exchange, which is another very important aspect of our cooperation. Slovenia wishes to establish itself as one of the major logistic hubs of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in this part of the world". The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is an initiative proposed by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, aimed at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road and maritime trading routes.

Last month, Slovenia's Minister for Infrastructure, Peter Gašperšič, visited China where he held talks with China's Minister for Transport, Li Xiaopeng, and the head of the Chinese Civil Aviation Agency, Feng Zhenglin. They discussed improving airline connectivity between the two countries, as well as cooperation in the production of small aircraft. Ljubljana has been attempting to secure flights to China for several years. In 2013 the airport's General Manager, Zmago Skobir, sent an invitation to China Southern Airlines to introduce services to the Slovenian capital. Last year, the Chinese Embassy in Ljubljana launched an initiative for flights between the two countries to be established, with a proposal for Hainan Airlines to operate its service from Beijing to Prague via the Slovenian capital. Ultimately, Hainan will now use Prague as a stopover on its new service to Belgrade starting September 15.

Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport also expects to link Slovenia with China after SHS Aviation took over and established an airline with the aim of launching services to the Far East. Andrej Fištravec, the Mayor of Maribor, said, "The international investment group SHS Aviation purchased operator Aerodrom Maribor and with that obtained a fifteen year concession to manage the airport. They also announced plans to commence flights this year. The initial plan was made with knowledge of Slovenian legislation, although, unfortunately, in Slovenia it takes more time to be granted all the necessary licenses to create conditions for them to fulfil their investment plan". He added, "VLM Airlines, a subsidiary of SHS Aviation, received their air operator's certificate (AOC) in May instead of April as initially planned. I believe that, during the second half of the year, SHS will start with flights inside Europe and once the infrastructure at Maribor Airport is developed, I think they will start continental flights to China". SHS has previously announced plans to commence services from Slovenia's second largest city to Xi'an, Chongqing and Nanchang in China.

Of course they'll start, why not? It's quite a fair bribe to increase the group companies' chances to win the tender. At the end, they'll operate a few flights between PRG-BEG, as the equipment already had 7-8 hrs of ground time in PRG.

But please note that a lot of fun and critics are on the way. At the end, these flights are originally PRG flights, and most of the pax will disembark in PRG. And everyone (except fanatics) will mock on the project once it is noticed that there aren't more than 10-20 pax arriving to BEG.

You don't know much about Chinese airlines. Ease up. You were barking the same way how Air Serbia will never launch New York. Focus on the actual topic which is Slovenia and leave your Belgrade doom comments for another day

And you have Emirates, Qatar, Iberia, Austrian, Lufthansa, Swiss, BA, Air France, KLM.... Why would Croatia need to attract Chinese carriers to start with. If Chinese carriers see Croatia as a potential for their passengers they'll come soon enough.

Lets not force flights cause politicians want it, let the market dictate the terms. Korean air is only flying seasonal charters to Zagreb, 400 000 South Korean visitors in Croatia, 80 000 in Zagreb. 175 000 Japanese visitors to Croatia, not a single direct flight to Croatia with a Japanese carrier.

When you have plethora of global carriers landing in Zagreb, yo really don't need direct links to Zagreb as long as there are good connecting flights. Yes direct flights are better, but if they're not commercially viable, why force it.

You would probably be the only airport in the world that would not want direct flights but just connecting flights. Then you should get Lufthansa to fly 50 daily flights so you can connect in Frankfurt to the rest of the world.

Anyway the ambassador said. "It is important to establish direct flights, as well as simplify and speed up the issuance of visas. Last year, 100.000 Chinese tourists visited Croatia, which is almost nothing considering the Chinese travel market, however, it was an improvement of 20% compared to 2015. I would really like for Croatia to approach China in a different way and view it from a different angle".

What I don't get about some Croatian participants here is that they deny that anything can be done better, that anything can be improved. The line of argument is that everything is the best, everything is world class, everything is amazing. In actual fact it is not. But instead of discussing about it and suggesting ways to fix things you present as if everything is top notch. Unless you are being paid for PR services, I don't see much point in being here. At the same time some of you here seem to be competing who will be more condescending and arrogant towards others creating a toxic environment for any sort of discussion. But when people unfortunately start responding to you in the same malicious way you do to others, you are the first to cry foul.

Well Budapest had a massive head start and also four times more traffic than Zagreb.

There are only 4000 Chinese living in Zagreb, 6000 in Croatia, 140 000 Chinese, 100 000 Taiwanese, 30 000 HK visitors are expected in Croatia this year. Still not enough to warrant direct link just yet.

When we have 250-300 000 Chinese visitors from Mainland, yes then it would be nice to start a direct seasonal flights, and with 500-550 000 visitors, that would require year round service.

Linking Shanghai and Beijing with Zagreb by 2025 would probably be desirable and warranted.

If Croatia can attract 300 000+ Taiwanese visitors, then yes a nice service linking Taipei and Zagreb would be nice.

@An.7:21Yesterday, Croatia joined Schengen Information System, has about 90% technicalities done, and is expected to become full Schengen member next year. And having their "own" China flights, I don't believe Hungarians "work" that lot with Serbia about potential Belgrade Beijing flights.

So just because you believe something it has to be true? The Serbian Tourism Organization has said it themselves, they have no reasons to lie. The point is that you are coming up with excuses here to justify some of your own shortcomings.

Wow at all the negativity. First the guy who can't deal with Belgrade getting flights to Beijing then the rest who can't deal with Ljubljana possibly getting flights to China. What a group of jelous haters, instead of being happy for each other or at least taming your frustrations.

But of course. And Air France is another glorified low cost. KLM another one. Finnair, of course. Air Portugal, the biggest. And actually I shouldn't have written anything, as you yourself said everything, pretending that major, real global players among airlines are nothing, simultaneously calling global player the airport which has ONE long-haul route. Evenue if the second one starts to Beijing from September, it will still be in the league of, for example Leeds/Bradford, which has 2 long-hauls, and so so so far from real global players. Sorry to spoil your feast, but those are the facts.

Or it could end up like the Belgrade plans. If there is a political will there is a way. Currently no ex-Yu city has enough demand to generate full flights to China but with increasing Chinese investment in the region and stronger political ties, Chinese will discover this part of the world.

"If there is political will" = "If the state pays for it?" Unfortunately no company will start any business adventure based just on political will. It might get it started but in the end its a matter of profitability.

norwegian is a must. 1 weekly to either oslo or stockholm. then vueling barcelona or madrid or something spanish. rynair with ireland service maybe or literally any destination, doesn't matter. And finally easyjet and wizz could ramp up some new routes as well. berlin, malaga, ... tons of opportunities for low costs.

What you want to say is that you actually cannot compare any airport :D DBV/SPU are seasonal, BEG the capital of the larges EXYU country... So why are you comparing them . The fact is that SPU will soon handle 3 times more Pax than LJU.

No, it's not. There is growth (more impressed in percentage than in real numbers), which is much better because of several years of increase, mostly because of more Adria frequencies (and that is because of too much capacity after canceling Lodz and other bases + one plane that was last year leased to Air Serbia).

But here we are talking about Fraport and are they doing good job or not. And they are not! They don't have much influence on Adria more frequencies, but they are not bringing more companies to Ljubljana. Comparing to region they are making lousy job!

I am sorry but how do you know for a fact Fraport did not make a special deal with JP for them to finally focus once again on LJU? How do you know the deal did not include the airprot giving Adria a grace period of let's say two years?

Sorry guys, but when you have a small market and you want flights from China politics HAS to be involved. The Serbs did it, and the Slovenians are doing it as well, hence government ministers holding talks with airlines and relevant authorities.

Do you remember that a couple of years ago China Southern Airlines wanted to buy LJU? They were in the running against Fraport and Vinci. Had they won, we probably would have already had flights between Ljubljana and China.

It is not happening. The argument Chinese carriers are known to be putting flights up for sale refers only to those that have never been started :D All serious destinations get flights announced well in advance like VIE or ZRH did.